The data centers people hate are the ones powering the AI slop engines, not the Internet. There's a reason traditional data centers never bothered anyone.

Maybe for the whole movie before long.

Just type in a few prompts to tell the AI what you would like to watch, then sit back and enjoy the show.

A custom movie, made just for you.

Right or wrong isn't at issue here.

Someone is being charged with a crime, so we're discussing matters around what constitutes legal versus illegal.

Please do try to keep up.

If you use that as an absolute standard, wouldn't it put a lot of other businesses in the crosshairs too?

When three businesses all have a sign in the window that says "Best price on Rugs!", should two of them be prosecuted for fraud?

Someone tells me that he wants a particular car.

Knowing someone else who has that car for sale for $500, I tell the first person that I can get him the car for $5000.

The guy hands me $5000, I go to the seller and hand him $500 and bring the car back to the purchaser and say, "Here you go."

While that may be unethical, is it illegal?

What if the guy who wants the car says he'll pay $5000 for it and I take his money and buy one for $4999?

The difference being just the amount of profit?

I genuinely don't know the answer.

Tragedy of the commons isn't a problem with human nature, it's a problem with the incentives in a capitalist economic system. Look at what happened with the real commons - individuals who were using it decided to organize and regulate sustainable use of the commons. Only corporations are selfish and short-sighted enough to fulfill the theory's prediction.

It may not be intentional anti-environmental shilling (in general, with sinij in particular it's quite clear that it is), but it is practically indistinguishable from it. The best time to build nuclear was 50-60 years ago, but the second best time, at this point, is probably never. Renewables with storage are vastly cheaper and vastly faster to build. Building nuclear today means locking up resources for decades that could've been used to rapidly deploy far greater amounts of cheap clean power instead. There are only a few niche uses where nuclear could still make sense and they are steadily being eaten away by renewables with storage.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Di...

It's a general-purpose diagramming program, not a web browser.

I think who you and GP are looking for are the Black Panthers. They're still around and didn't take kindly to the ICE goon squad.

If I need a gun to protect my liberty (as the gun folks claim they do) then what would you expect them to do with their guns?

Shooting the oppressors is the only purpose I can think of. Do they have another function that I'm not aware of?

That sounds socialist.

There's also something that could be called a "poverty tax".

People who have very little generally end up paying more for it than someone else.

For example, if you need toilet paper you might be able to scrape up enough money to buy a package of two rolls for $4.99. Even if the package of sixteen rolls is on sale for $9.99, you don't have $9.99 and therefore can't buy it.

Also, consider what happens if you are in a position where you have nowhere to store food and prepare it. You have to buy pre-made food in small quantities (individual servings) and can't even boil a package of ramen noodles. So you end up buying a taco from the truck on the corner at a higher price than you would pay if you could just make one yourself, but you can't.

The "poor tax" is real. It's really expensive to be poor.

It's their website and their property. They invite you to store some of your data on their webservers, and they provide the terms under which you can do that.

If you don't like the terms they are offering, you can not store data on their webservers.

Facebook isn't life-and-death.

I don't have a facebook account, I've never had a facebook account, and I'm still here. You can do it too, if you choose.

They (just) did.

Price-wise it's not significantly different, since $200 in 1984 is about $650 in today's dollars so it's about the same price as today's consoles.

However, when the Commodore 64 was released in 1982, it was $595, which is roughly $2000 today.

The main difference is that a Commodore 64 is a general purpose computer in addition to being a "gaming console" so you got more for your money in that regard than you get with a simple console today.